New York health officials warn a highly potent synthetic sedative has been detected in the state’s illicit drug supply, ...

It’s similar to xylazine, or tranq — a veterinary painkiller and muscle relaxant commonly cut into street drugs since about ...

About a dozen states are experiencing a surge in emergency department visits related to a new combination of fentanyl and a sedative 100 to 200 times more potent than xylazine, The New York Times ...

Medetomidine, a veterinary sedative, mixed into fentanyl has sent thousands to hospitals, not only for overdose but for ...

A coroner has raised concerns about the lack of national guidelines around the use of the sedative Propofol following the ...

Doctors treating seriously ill patients in an emergency setting may want to give the sedative etomidate, rather than ketamine ...

Benzodiazepines, opioid analgesics, and other sedatives have indispensable medical uses; however, they can also stimulate the reward center in the brain. In susceptible individuals, this can lead to ...

Doctors treating seriously ill patients in an emergency setting may want to give the sedative etomidate, rather than ketamine ...

Sedative-, hypnotic-, or anxiolytic- (SHA-) related disorders include SHA intoxication, SHA withdrawal, and SHA-use disorder. These disorders result from abuse of a class of medications known as ...

Xylazine is a sedative that's only approved for use in animals, but now it is showing up in illegal street drugs up and down the East Coast. WBUR's Martha Bebinger reports that it may be contributing ...

The young patients and their parents said staffers at several psychiatric hospitals describe the practice as injecting patients with "booty juice." They claimed the injections often were administered ...

Hallucinated sexual assaults and erotic fantasies induced by sedatives, including midazolam, may occur during procedures like dental restorations, putting clinicians at risk of legal troubles, ...